The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

Kayyem, Juliette

ISBN 10: 1541700090 / ISBN 13: 9781541700093

Published by PublicAffairs, New York, 2022

About this Item

First edition: March 2022, and printing 1, stated. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $29.00); Brodart protected.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
• Publisher: PublicAffairs, New York
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1541700090
• ISBN 13: 9781541700093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.

The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind?

In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters. Presenting the basic themes of crisis management, Kayyem amends the principles we rely on far too easily. Instead, she offers us a new framework to anticipate the “devil’s” inevitable return, highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and the forward thinking we need to harness. It’s no longer about preventing a disaster from occurring, but learning how to use the tools at our disposal to minimize the consequences when it does.

Filled with personal anecdotes and real-life examples from natural disasters like the California wildfires to man-made ones like the Boeing 737 MAX crisis, The Devil Never Sleeps is a guide for governments, businesses, and individuals alike on how to alter our thinking so that we can develop effective strategies in the face of perpetual catastrophe.

About the Author

Juliette Kayyem is the Robert and Renee Belfer Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she is faculty director of the Homeland Security Project and the Security and Global Health Project. She has spent over twenty years managing complex policy initiatives and organizing government responses to major crises in both state and federal government. She is a regular contributor to the Atlantic magazine, and a commentator on CNN.